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London, as a financial center and cosmopolitan city, has its historical charm, cultural draw, and technical allure for everyone, whether you are an artist, entrepreneur or high-tech engineer. As such, we are excited to announce that London is our next stop for Spark + AI Summit Europe, from October 2-4th, 2018, so prepare yourself for...

Apache Spark is tackling new frontiers through innovations by unifying new workloads. This enables developers to combine data and AI to develop intelligent applications. Developers come to this summit not just to hear about innovations from contributors. They come to share their use cases, experiences, and absorb knowledge. @matei_zaharia just announced support of #kubernetes in...

By any measurement today, in the digital media, technical conferences and citations, or searches on Google trends, the frequency of terms like artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning or data science is on the rise. A special report in The Economist makes the case that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), and its purported...

Within a couple of years of its release as an open-source machine learning and deep learning framework, TensorFlow has seen an amazing rate of adoption. Consider the number of stars on its github page: 98+K; look at the number of contributors: 1500+; and observe its growing penetration and pervasiveness in verticals: from medical imaging to...

Convergence of Knowledge For any Apache Spark enthusiast, these summits are the convergence of Spark knowledge. Used by a growing global community of enterprises, academics, contributors, and advocates, attendees have convened at these summits since 2013 to share knowledge. And this summer attendees will return to San Francisco—to an expanded scope and agenda. Expansion of...

In collaboration with the local chapter of Women in Big Data Meetup and our continuing effort by Databricks diversity team to have more women in the big data space as speakers to share their subject matter expertise, we hosted our second meetup with a diverse and highly-accomplished women in their respective technical fields as speakers...

Early last month, we announced our agenda for Spark + AI Summit 2018, with over 180 selected talks with 11 tracks and training courses. For this summit, we have added four new tracks to expand its scope to include Deep Learning Frameworks, AI, Productionizing Machine Learning, Hardware in the Cloud, and Python and Advanced Analytics....

It’s hard to believe that we are already three weeks into 2018. If you’re still struggling to get valuable insights from your data, now is the perfect time to try something new! We recently announced Azure Databricks, a fast, easy and collaborative Apache® Spark™ based analytics platform optimized for Azure. With Azure Databricks, you can help your...

Over the past few years, the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities has surged with innovations in natural language processing, task automation, and predictions. From autonomous cars to a more personalized shopping experience, big data and artificial intelligence is at the forefront of new solutions that are delighting customers, improving business operations...

We’re excited to announce that Spark Summit is expanding its coverage in 2018 to include in-depth content on artificial intelligence. We are also renaming the conference Spark + AI Summit. AI has always been one of the most exciting applications of big data and Apache Spark, so with this change, we are planning to bring...